Oct 21THE MAIDAN MASSACRE, CENSORSHIP & UKRAINE: MY INTERVIEW WITH IVAN KATCHANOVSKIBy Natylie Baldwin, Consortium News, 10/20/23 Canadian-Ukrainian professor Ivan Katchanovski’s investigation of the Maidan massacre in Kiev in February 2014 found an organized mass killing of both protesters and the police, with the goal of delegitimizing the Yanukovych government and its forces and seizing power in Ukraine, as he wrote…Ukraine War15 min readUkraine War15 min read
Jul 23FROM STALINISM TO THE ‘MOST AVOIDABLE WAR IN HISTORY’: MY INTERVIEW WITH PROF. GEOFFREY ROBERTSBy Natylie Baldwin, Consortium News, 7/21/23 Geoffrey Roberts is an historian, biographer and political commentator. A renowned specialist in Russian and Soviet foreign and military policy and an expert on Stalin and the Second World War, his books have been translated into numerous languages. …Russia12 min readRussia12 min read
Jul 17MY INTERVIEW WITH SARAH LINDEMANN-KOMAROVA ON THE EVOLUTION OF DEMOCRACY IN RUSSIA FROM 1990’S TO PRESENTBy Natylie Baldwin, Covert Action Magazine, 7/12/23 Below is an interview that I conducted with Sarah Lindemann-Komarova, an American who has lived in Siberia since 1992. She was a community development activist there for 20 years. She currently focuses on research and writing, mostly about Russia and community activism. …Russia23 min readRussia23 min read
Jun 26SOME PRELIMINARY THOUGHTS ON THE FAILED WAGNER MUTINYSome details have come out about the deal that Belarusian president Alexander Lukashenko brokered to end the crisis. …Russia3 min readRussia3 min read
May 22The Good, the Bad, and the Befuddling: My Review of Philip Short’s “Putin”The Good, the Bad, and the Befuddling: My Review of Philip Short’s “Putin” By Natylie Baldwin, Antiwar.com, 5/19/23 British journalist Philip Short has written a long, in-depth biography of Vladimir Putin. The timing of its publication was rather fortuitous, having been released just a few months after Russia’s invasion of…Vladimir Putin8 min readVladimir Putin8 min read
May 6Taking the Capitalist Road Was the Wrong Choice For Ukraine — My Interview with Expert Renfrey ClarkeBy Natylie Baldwin, Covert Action Magazine, 5/5/23 Renfrey Clarke is an Australian journalist. Throughout the 1990s he reported from Moscow for Green Left Weekly of Sydney. This past year, he published The Catastrophe of Ukrainian Capitalism: How Privatisation Dispossessed & Impoverished the Ukrainian People with Resistance Books. In April, I…Ukraine5 min readUkraine5 min read
Mar 13DID THE WEST SABOTAGE UKRAINE & PROVOKE RUSSIA? MY PRESENTATION TO TEXAS STATE UNIVERSITY PHILOSOPHY DEPT. — MARCH 8, 2023My presentation to the Philosophy Department of Texas State University discussing the history and context that led up to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, with Q&A.Russia1 min readRussia1 min read
Jan 16REVIEW OF NICOLAI PETRO’S “THE TRAGEDY OF UKRAINE”There are several academics whose work on Russia and the former Soviet Union I have found to be excellent and reliable. These include the late Stephen F. Cohen, Richard Sakwa, Paul Robinson, Dominic Lieven, and Nicolai Petro (among a few others). …Russia7 min readRussia7 min read
Oct 2, 2022REVIEW OF BENJAMIN ABELOW’S “HOW THE WEST BROUGHT WAR TO UKRAINE”I first came across Benjamin Abelow’s analysis of the Ukraine war as a lengthy article published on Medium in May. I found the depth and thoroughness of his article impressive and complimented him on it. When he told me that he’d expanded it into a short book, I was intrigued…Ukraine War4 min readUkraine War4 min read
May 20, 2022How Has the Russian Economy Withstood Sanctions?When Vladimir Putin took over the Russian presidency in 2000, he inherited a nation that was having trouble carrying out the most basic functions of a state. Putin found himself presiding over a multitude of crises: rampant crime, a major mortality crisis, a decrepit military, and an economy that had…Russia8 min readRussia8 min read
